About Smartglasses Roadmap – the 20's

The first report to describe smartglasses' road to ubiquity as they replace smart phones and smart watches by 2030.

About the report

Smartglasses Roadmap – the 20's takes a deep dive into the technology, vendors, applications and end users for this about to explode product category.
Version 1.1 includes significant updates to reflect the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 65-page report provides market numbers, key technology discussions, major application areas, and guidance for manufacturers, investors, and end users. The report is available in English and Chinese.

Forecast adjustments due to the COVID-19 pandemic

We originally wrote this report in February and March of 2020. At that time, it was not yet obvious that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic would be as great as it has become. Though we included a brief mention of the pandemic and the increased uncertainty it caused in the report at that time, we have since reevaluated our projections.

Table of Contents

Smartglasses Roadmap – is 65 pages filled with facts and findings that everyone involved with this rapidly approaching technology will find essential to business planning.
The report includes a Glossary, 7 tables, 6 charts, and 9 illustrations.

Introduction

We believe that packaging the functionality of Hololens into a form factor of a pair of Ray Bans is essential to widespread acceptance of AR in the consumer space. In fact, that is essentially our definition of smartglasses.
In retail, architecture, medicine, gaming, education, maintenance, training, and many other fields, AR has already become a routine experience, with little pushback, and a multitude of applications in both the consumer and enterprise spaces. Acceptance of these applications will explode when the viewing devices become more user friendly. Those devices, we believe, will be smartglasses.